Poorna Jagannathan is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her portrayal of Safar Khan in HBO’s Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated show, The Night Of, as well as playing the lead in the Bollywood cult comedy film Delhi Belly. She also initiated and produced the play Nirbhaya, written and directed by Yael Farber, which dealt with breaking the silence about sexual violence. Her play won the 2013 ‘Amnesty International Award’ and was called by The Telegraph as the “One of the most powerful pieces of theater you’ll ever see”. Jagannathan was featured among the top 10 in Femina magazine’s “India’s 50 most beautiful women” in 2012 and in 2014, she was named among the top 50 most powerful women in India. She was most recently a series regular on Gypsy, a Netflix original series, and part of the ensemble cast for HBO’s new anthology series, Room 104, by the Duplass brothers. Her new film, Share, directed by Pippa Bianco and produced by A24, is slated for a 2019 release on HBO. In May 2018, Deadline announced that Jagannathan was joining the cast of the HBO series Big Little Lies, as a new recurring character.
Poorna Jagannathan Biography / Wiki
| Name | Poorna Jagannathan |
| Also Know | Poorna |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Date of Birth | 1972-12-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 49 |
| Deathday |
Poorna Jagannathan Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| I’ll Show You Mine | Priya | 2022-04-16 | An author, who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a gender-nonconforming … |
| The Dead Center | Sarah Grey | 2019-10-11 | When a mysterious “John Doe” wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncov… |
| Alia’s Birth | 2021-08-26 | A rocky relationship between a lesbian couple forces them to spend the night apart…. | |
| Share | Kerri | 2019-07-27 | After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navig… |
| Daisy Winters | Annabel Kumar | 2017-10-06 | An eleven year-old girl’s unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to d… |
| The Out-Laws | A straight-laced bank manager about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he beli… | ||
| Delhi Belly | Menaka Vashisht | 2011-07-01 | Three unsuspecting, average guys find themselves on the hit list of one of India’s most-powerful crime syndicates…. |
| House Comes with a Bird | Langley | 2022-03-23 | It’s quintessentially late afternoon Californian sun. The eponymous house gently hosts a number of clipped social encounters. Each of these denotes … |
| Growing Up Smith | Nalini Bhatnagar | 2017-02-03 | In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the gi… |
| Turtles All the Way Down | Dr. Singh | A 16-year-old a girl with OCD discovers through her friend that a billionaire construction magnate has gone missing in the wake of fraud investigation… | |
| An Actor Prepares | Dr. Fisher | 2018-08-31 | After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified agains… |
| The Circle | Dr. Jessica Villalobos | 2017-04-27 | A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company’s ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situati… |
| Mile 22 | Dorothy Brady | 2018-08-16 | An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to … |
| Thanks for Sharing | Lili Kazhani | 2013-09-19 | A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle to… |
| Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani | Riyana | 2013-05-31 | Bunny and Naina meet when they graduate from college and again in their late 20s…. |
| Awake | Dr. Neyer’s Nurse | 2007-11-28 | While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the … |
| Peace, Love & Misunderstanding | Mira | 2011-09-13 | A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husba… |
| Carrie Pilby | Fliss | 2017-03-31 | Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test … |
| She Hate Me | Song’s Girlfriend | 2004-07-30 | Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit…. |
| The Weather Man | NY Pedestrian | 2005-10-20 | A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive…. |
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